FEMA Public Assistance disaster grants in Louisiana

Public assistance on a Louisiana tag

Keep USAspending rows labeled DISASTER GRANTS - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (PRESIDENTIALLY DECLARED DISASTERS) whose geography is Louisiana (LA). Twenty-three awards remain. They sum to $12,683,945,756.67. Public assistance reimburses eligible costs after a presidential declaration. The extract does not name hurricanes, parishes, or applicants.

The implied mean is about $551,476,000 per award — larger than the implied mean on Florida’s thicker 97.036 file. A smaller row count with a still-large dollar total usually means bigger vehicles or more bundling, not a quieter disaster history. The packet does not explain the bundling.

Louisiana federal spending is every CFDA on LA. CFDA 97.036 is public assistance nationwide. Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Louisiana is the overlap. Louisiana programs and All spending ties are the indexes.

Louisiana’s PA implied mean is higher than Florida’s on fewer rows. That pattern usually means larger or more bundled vehicles. It does not mean Louisiana’s disasters were worse. Declaration history is unpublished.

Levee districts, parishes, and school boards can all be PA applicants. None is named in the facts. $12,683,945,756.67 is the obligation sum only.

What stays outside 97.036 in Louisiana

Individual Assistance, hazard mitigation, flood insurance, and levee-project Catalog numbers that are not 97.036 sit elsewhere. They are not inside $12,683,945,756.67. A complete Louisiana disaster-finance story would need those joins separately.

Place-of-performance can follow the applicant or the declared state. Work in a coastal parish can be billed through a statewide award tagged LA. Work coded to another state would not appear even if Louisiana contractors performed it. Twenty-three rows are not a parish damage map.

Do not attach storm names to $12,683,945,756.67. Declaration identifiers are not facts in this packet.

HMGP, NFIP, and Corps civil-works projects that are not 97.036 sit elsewhere even when they follow the same flood. Keep the Catalog number in the quote.

Open awards and slow closeout

PA projects can stay open for years. Quote $12,683,945,756.67 as USAspending obligations, not as reimbursements already paid to Louisiana applicants. Cost shares, deobligations, and insurance deductions are other columns.

No fiscal year is in the facts. Do not pin the sum to a single season. Cite USAspending.gov CFDA aggregates by place of performance state.

Louisiana PA closeouts can last years. Quote obligations with that timing in mind. Outlays would be a different column.

Coast and I-10 corridor share one LA code

This packet does not split 23 awards or $12,683,945,756.67 by parish. A New Orleans story and a southwest Louisiana story would need project-level geography. The extract stays statewide.

Do not rank Louisiana against Florida on ‘disaster burden’ from these two cells. Exposure, declarations, and applicant mix are unpublished. Correlation is not causation.

Coastal parishes and northern parishes share LA. A parish story needs project worksheets, not this statewide cell.

Citation line

Quote USAspending.gov: Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) (CFDA 97.036) obligated $12,683,945,756.67 on 23 awards coded to Louisiana. Name public assistance and Louisiana together.

The overlay Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Louisiana is the live table.

Do not rank the Gulf from two PA cells

Florida’s 36-row PA cell and Louisiana’s 23-row cell are two USAspending joins. They are not a scoreboard of which state suffered more.

Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana programs lists sibling CFDA cells.

Louisiana’s 23 PA awards and Florida’s 36 PA awards are two USAspending cells, not a Gulf scoreboard. $12,683,945,756.67 is the Louisiana 97.036 obligation sum. Parishes, levee districts, and school boards can be applicants; none is named here. Flood insurance and Individual Assistance remain other systems. Closeout can still move the figure. Quote the overlay when the live table has shifted. Statewide LA is the only geography in the facts.

Questions

How much FEMA Public Assistance is obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending.gov shows $12,683,945,756.67 across 23 awards for CFDA 97.036 tagged to Louisiana. That is an obligation join, not insurance payouts or a storm list.

Does 23 awards mean 23 Louisiana disasters?

No. Twenty-three is an award-action count. One declaration can produce many awards, and one award can cover many projects. Storm names are not in this packet.

Can I compare Louisiana and Florida Public Assistance from these pages?

You can compare the two USAspending cells as obligation joins. You cannot rank the states as more or less disaster-struck. Declaration history is not a field here.

Where is the live Louisiana 97.036 table?

Disaster Grants - Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) in Louisiana. See also Louisiana federal spending, Louisiana programs, CFDA 97.036, and All spending ties.